National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) agents successfully stopped a commercial vehicle carrying 942 explosives in a sack last Saturday while on a routine patrol along the Kaduna-Zaria expressway. The vehicle was traveling from Nasarawa to Zamfara State.
According to sources, the agency’s spokeswoman, Femi Babafemi, acknowledged the development in a statement.
According to the agency, a 30-year-old suspect was taken into custody in relation to this event.
The NDLEA stated that they found the explosives during the May 3rd patrol and detained the culprit, Nura Sani Muhammad (also called Nura Hariji).
The agency also reported the capture of illegal narcotics in Lagos and Port Harcourt valued at over N3.4 billion.
On April 29, NDLEA officers and other security personnel conducted a joint inspection of a watch-listed container at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex in Onne, Rivers State, and recovered 2 million pills of tafrodol 225mg and 163,000 bottles of codeine syrup. Additionally, 1,500,000 pills of a controlled opioid were discovered in the Alaba-Rago neighborhood of Ojo, Lagos.
In Port Harcourt, Rivers state, and Lagos state, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency’s (NDLEA) operations have seized at least three million five hundred thousand (3,500,000) opioid pills and 163,000 bottles of codeine syrup, totaling more than three billion, four hundred and twenty-eight million naira (N3,428,000,000.00).
Two million 225 mg tafrodol pills and 163,000 bottles of codeine syrup were the main items seized on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, when NDLEA officers, Customs Service officers, and other security personnel jointly inspected a watch-listed container at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex in Onne, Rivers state.
“On Tuesday, April 29, 1,500,000 pills of a controlled opioid were found in Lagos, from a suspect named Olarenwaju Wahab in the Alaba-Rago neighborhood of Ojo. The consignment’s origin was identified as Q104B Road 25, Victoria Garden City, Lekki, which is the home of an Obinna Kenneth, who is currently at large.”
The statement further disclosed that 42 bundles of Canadian Loud, a very strong cannabis strain concealed in food tins, were intercepted by officers at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja during a British Airways trip from Canada.
According to the announcement, three people were arrested between April 30 and May 3, including the beneficiary, Monsurat Ewawunmi Lawson.
On May 2, Babafemi reported another incident at the Lagos airport: Bobby Morris Osa, a businessman, was arrested for trying to board a trip to Italy with over 8,000 tramadol pills.
In a similar vein, the statement stated that on April 28, 104 grams of tramadol and skunk concealed in bottles of body cream were seized by NDLEA officials, who stopped an effort to transport drugs to Iraq via a courier service.
Among other accomplishments was the 52-year-old Managing Director of Ovidaq International Ltd. being apprehended in relation to the July 2024 importation of over 2.6 million tramadol pills through the Apapa port.
The discovery of 51 wraps of Canadian Loud was another outcome of a search of his Lekki home.
The 52-year-old Dominic Chiegozie Obijiaku, Managing Director of Ovidaq International Ltd., was arrested by NDLEA agents on Saturday, April 26, after a ten-month investigation. The NDLEA had been investigating the importation of 2,616,060 tramadol 225mg pills, which they had intercepted at Apapa seaport in Lagos on July 28, 2024. During a follow-up procedure at his Lekki home, 51 wraps of Canadian Loud weighing 34 grams were found, according to the statement.
As a result of the agency’s significant arrests in the states of Kano, Edo, Anambra, and Niger, hundreds of thousands of opioid tablets, codeine syrup bottles, pentazocine injection ampoules, and cannabis were seized from all suspects.
